The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health says that despite global supply-chain pressures having a huge impact on local essential medication stock, and resulting in shortages, every effort was being made ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a new pancreatic cancer drug, a pill that nearly doubled patients’ average survival times for one of the deadliest cancers when taken instead of ...

In March 2024, a pivotal clinical trial was launched to evaluate what might well become the first new tuberculosis vaccine on the market in more than a century. As anticipation mounts for the trial to ...

The plan for the reformation of Kenya’s universal healthcare coverage that was implemented in 2023 – passed and approved within a record six weeks – is almost identical to one the country tried to ...

Researchers have found a way to slash the processing time for 3D-printed zirconia crowns from as much as 100 hours to under 30 minutes. The advance could eventually let dentists print strong, ...

Complaints from several women researchers have prompted the Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition (AESAN) to review its recent report on diet and healthy habits during the menopause, after ...

In a case so rare it has not yet been contemplated by Queensland surrogacy laws, a woman gave birth to twin children with separate sets of biological parents last year, reports The Guardian. She had ...

Documents from a case that was settled out of court, with a non-disclosure agreement, have revealed the toxic situation that developed at a practice at Medicross Randburg, where a doctor was thrown ...

An estimated 1.5m (29%) people with HIV were 50 and older – and the numbers are growing, according to The Lancet HIV Commission on Ageing’s 2026 report, highlighting how profoundly the global HIV ...

Experts say that shoulder imaging can over-diagnose common problems, and that asymptomatic structural changes in this area are common, especially with ageing, reports Medscape. In fact, conservative ...